Politics

New academic report predicts US will suffer loss of political and economic power if it exits the global climate accord in November

Campaign group Plan B poised to file court action claiming government failed to take into account climate obligations when bailing out Covid-hit firms

The EU's proposed Green Deal shows that the right policy initiatives could address the economic crisis and climate change simultaneously

Joe Biden in the White House, and potentially Democrats in control of the Senate too, could turbo-charge climate change as an investment theme, argues Schroders' Simon Webber

One Nation Conservatives group of more than 100 MPs call for 2030 fossil fuel car ban, carbon tax and tree planting funding

California Senator has previously slammed President Trump's scientific illiteracy and backed plans for a $10tr net zero investment drive

A number of developing countries are coming forward with ambitious decarbonisation plans, but as Ed King explains, their significance is often too easily ignored

All the green business news from around the world this week

Group of leading economists call on policymakers to hasten the close of the 'carbon economy'